View Full Version : *Sigh* School holidays...
...are here again. All very well for teachers. But how to entertain little one for two and a half weeks, as I need Anne to help me at work:confused:
Biker Biggles
04-04-07, 07:39 PM
Send em out to work.I see Furrybean's chimney needs a sweep.;)
furrybean
04-04-07, 08:21 PM
Aye, send them over and I'll keep em busy. I'll get a pot of gruel going for them too!
One of you needs to take time out - get on the coffee morning circuit...it's great...for the kids...means I get to leave all the women nattering whilst I surf'n stuff!!:cool:
Hire a temp? maybe...
furrybean
04-04-07, 08:24 PM
Or a Polish fella?
send them off commuting - It's great this time of year :D
Shool holiday clubs - mine have been in for half days so they arent driving totally round the bend... least the weather is good so can chase them outside.
Anne tells me that a friend's daughter, Lucy, is doing the business tomorrow and for a few days next week. Phew!! Lucy is really good on the violin and piano so I think there'll be a lot of music lessons. I just have to listen to it as soon as I get in the door! Dunno 'bout all you peeps but when I get home from work I wanna flop.
ASM-Forever
04-04-07, 10:47 PM
Anne tells me that a friend's daughter, Lucy, is doing the business tomorrow and for a few days next week. Phew!! Lucy is really good on the violin and piano so I think there'll be a lot of music lessons. I just have to listen to it as soon as I get in the door! Dunno 'bout all you peeps but when I get home from work I wanna flop.
Leave the ear-plugs in:)....just nod and smile!
Jelster
04-04-07, 11:22 PM
That's one good thing about having them young, he pretty much sorts out his own entertainment now.....
But he starts Uni this year, god that's gonna hurt the wallet.....
rictus01
04-04-07, 11:33 PM
Send them to Halford, then when they get back, give them another list and send them back again, hey it worked on my 17yr old today, guess where he's off to first thing tomorrow :D
Cheers Mark.
Steelman
04-04-07, 11:45 PM
That's one good thing about having them young, he pretty much sorts out his own entertainment now.....
But he starts Uni this year, god that's gonna hurt the wallet.....
Tell me about it :rolleyes:
Our son is two terms into the first year and I'm thinking of what I can sell (apart from the SV ;) ) to pay for the rest of the course (four years, no less, for his MChem - Alpinestars, notice that you're doing the same?) :smt086
One advantage of being older.......................your kids have all grown up and left home:D
timwilky
05-04-07, 07:41 AM
One advantage of being older.......................your kids have all grown up and left home:D
How you manage to evict them Lissa?.
My youngest keeps looking at houses. But cannot get an affordable mortgage. I wish he would get a place so I can trash it in revenge for the 20 years of damage he has done to my place. The eldest is still here as well. Despite the fact that I pay the rent on her place in Leeds where she lives at best 2 days a week.
At least the middle one has gone. but turns up when she wants a decent meal, borrow money, needs a sitter etc. My experience of kids is the older they get the more expensive they become
Beaniebike
05-04-07, 07:56 AM
Dodn't you lot have kids cos you actually wanted them around? Stop winging and enjoy your time with them! It will disappear soon enough, and then you'll be wishing they were around more, but they will be too busy to come and see your wrinkly wee butts!
Its all very "Cat's in the Cradle" you know!!!
Ahh, the joys of having only a nephew (with another - or niece on the way in a month) and being the 'Black Sheep' of the family...
... I get to go over there and corrupt their tiny little minds and never get trusted to babysit! :twisted:
We used to run loads of holiday clubs when I was working in a school though - there's usually something for everyone from sport & music to art.
Otherwise check out your local library - if they aren't organising something then there's usually a community noticeboard or something similar. Bound to be some stuff on there.
Do you have a local Hobbycraft shop - they do holiday courses in all kinds of stuff too.
Granted, they all generally have a cost involved (though often not with the school ones) but it's worth it for your peace perhaps.
timwilky
05-04-07, 08:25 AM
Dodn't you lot have kids cos you actually wanted them around? Stop winging and enjoy your time with them! It will disappear soon enough, and then you'll be wishing they were around more, but they will be too busy to come and see your wrinkly wee butts!
Its all very "Cat's in the Cradle" you know!!!
Rubbish, Kids are a product of the little head over ruling the big head. Three little accidents and a life time of poverty. Eldest has even pinched my company car this morning and left hers (Well thats mine as well).
Oh for the days when kids would be down the mines, in the mills or up the chimneys. At least they had a purpose as cheap labour.
sometimes I do wonder how or why I wanted kids anyway ....... I think something takes over your mind .... and the baby blues are not baby blues at all, just the start of the realisation of what you have done !;)
rictus01
05-04-07, 08:38 AM
One advantage of being older.......................your kids have all grown up and left home:D
One down , one to go ;)
How you manage to evict them Lissa?.
My youngest keeps looking at houses. But cannot get an affordable mortgage. I wish he would get a place so I can trash it in revenge for the 20 years of damage he has done to my place. The eldest is still here as well. Despite the fact that I pay the rent on her place in Leeds where she lives at best 2 days a week.
At least the middle one has gone. but turns up when she wants a decent meal, borrow money, needs a sitter etc. My experience of kids is the older they get the more expensive they become
Not tried that one, have to give it a go at sometime, just to see the look on his face :D
Dodn't you lot have kids cos you actually wanted them around? Stop winging and enjoy your time with them! It will disappear soon enough, and then you'll be wishing they were around more, but they will be too busy to come and see your wrinkly wee butts!
Its all very "Cat's in the Cradle" you know!!!
Have seven remotes on a table, the eighth is a DEC phone, press internal 3, hey I appriciate my kid (well he has run around for me over the last 6 months or so :mrgreen:
Oh for the days when kids would be down the mines, in the mills or up the chimneys. At least they had a purpose as cheap labour.
Still are aren't they ? or have I got that wrong, you've got years to indoctronate them, all your own fault if you haven't made use of it ;)
Cheers Mark.
Yay, School holidays!!! One of the advantages of working in a school :p
Decisions, decisions, do I take the boat or the bike out??
Nope, I'm here in school, finishing off year end stuff and making sure all the budgets are in place for the new financial year.
But hey ho, that's me done and now I'm off to enjoy the remainder of the holidays, just over a week...
...bike or boat, bike or boat....
Lou x
Yay, School holidays!!! One of the advantages of working in a school :p
Decisions, decisions, do I take the boat or the bike out??
Nope, I'm here in school, finishing off year end stuff and making sure all the budgets are in place for the new financial year.
But hey ho, that's me done and now I'm off to enjoy the remainder of the holidays, just over a week...
...bike or boat, bike or boat....
Lou x
Boys, tell me someone got the corkscrew to her boat... that's just not fair posting something like that! ;)
How you manage to evict them Lissa?.
My youngest keeps looking at houses. But cannot get an affordable mortgage. I wish he would get a place so I can trash it in revenge for the 20 years of damage he has done to my place. The eldest is still here as well. Despite the fact that I pay the rent on her place in Leeds where she lives at best 2 days a week.
At least the middle one has gone. but turns up when she wants a decent meal, borrow money, needs a sitter etc. My experience of kids is the older they get the more expensive they become
My eldest son fell in love, thought with his little head, and made me a grandmother last year. He lives with his partner and daughter about a mile from where I live.
My younger son went off to Newport Uni, fell in love, and now lives in Leek about three miles from his partners parents.
My daughter I did actually have to legally evict. A long, unpleasant story that I won't go into here, but it got to the stage where if she didn't leave things would become unbearable. Since she left we have actually got on much better, and having to stand on her own two feet has been the making of her. Sometimes they jump before they are pushed. Sometimes, for their own good and yours, you have to push.
Well Lucy took Sophie swimming today. Shame she's not available till next Wednesday.
Oh and Lou M, I hate you:D
kwak zzr
05-04-07, 09:22 PM
kids are always ruddy off aint they? didnt seem that way when i was at skool. :)
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